Increasing the energy efficiency of dwelling houses: case study of residential quarter in Upper Silesia, Poland

Author(s): Anna Ostańska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The paper assesses thermomodernisation measures aimed at improving energy efficiency of dwelling houses in a city quarter in Upper Silesia, Poland. The area was encompassed by the city council’s program of emission restriction that promoted energy saving activities. The assessment was carried out by means of thermographic examination. It confirmed the fact that the thermomodernisation measures taken so far provided considerable improvement, but did not solved all issues. Further works should be undertaken on the basis of thorough examination of the current condition of the buildings.

Innowacyjne rozwiązania szansą rozwoju systemów transportu trolejbusowego na przykładzie Gdyni i Lublina

Author(s): Mikołaj Bartłomiejczyk,Sławomir Goliszek,Marcin Połom / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

The history of the electric public transport dates back to the eighties of nineteenth century. Its origins are linked with the tramway transport, which at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has become part of the landscape of many cities. The beginning of the twentieth century brought the popularization of trolleybus transport. Today, new mode of public transport has become the electric bus. The paper presents two modes of the electrified public transport: trolleybus and bus electric (interchangeably called electrobus). Authors outlined the evolution of both types of urban transport focusing on auxiliary drives in the contemporary trolleybuses, which allow to go without power from the catenary in the part of the route. The most frequently used in Europe is an auxiliary combustion engine, but the development of battery technology led to the popularization of this solution. For this reason, the batteries are evaluated as a solution for the future. The study analyzed the possibility of the development of two trolleybus transport systems (in Gdynia and Lublin) based on innovative battery technology. Some cities have decided to put electric buses into public transport in a wider range, for example in Krakow and Warsaw. Ye study compared the chances to put electric buses into operation in the cities with the trolleybus transport system.

Integracja podsystemów transportowych komunikacji publicznej Poznania w oparciu o dworce miejskie, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem dworca kolejowego Poznań Górczyn

Author(s): Wojciech Wachowiak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

Poznań has large impact zone, dynamically developing suburban areas and is generally considered to be one of the most important metropolitan areas in the country today. The city faces a plethora of commuter-related challenges and a very high demand for “transportation needs”. The purpose of this article is to present the integration of subsystems of public and metropolitan transportation systems, based on a network of commuter hubs with highest .multimodality. potential, offered by Poznań’s railroad stations. We will analyse the results of a survey taken on daily commuters and on the area of influence of the Poznań Górczyn city station. This particular station is a major node where all forms of public transportation meet.

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs

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Journal of Liberty and International Affairs is a triannual (3 issues per year), open-access and internationally peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of liberty and international affairs, published by the Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola. A group of scholars are responsible for the launching of this journal. The primary intention is to offer academic and public debate on liberty and international affairs in all their aspects, taking into account the following topics: Individual liberty; Libertarianism; Classical / Neoclassical liberalism; Objectivism; Social liberalism; Coercion; Statism; Anarchism; Minarchism; Democracy; Political anthropology; International relations and diplomacy; Public and private international law; Geopolitics; Nationalism; Multilateralism; Security and freedom; Ideology; Politics and religion; Neo-Ottomanism; Neo-Sovietism; Yugosphere; Propaganda; Regional cooperation; European federalism; EU law and politics; European economic governance; EU foreign and security policy; Competitive federalism; Comparative constitutional law; Human rights and freedoms; Gender studies; Emerging powers (BRICS; Russia; China; India etc.); Transatlantic relations and other related topics, that contribute to the understanding of liberty and international affairs from different angles. It is important to emphasize, that this journal devotes special attention to Europe / EU as a crucial factor in the contemporary international affairs. Also, the journal editorial team encourages the submissions that treat Balkan issues, especially the attitude of the Balkan countries towards the European integration, and their place within the new international context.

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Kilka uwag do genealogii krajobrazu narodowego na przykładzie Krajobrazu Polski Jerzego Smoleńskiego oraz Ziemi polskiej w pieśni zredagowanej przez Jana Lorentowicza

Author(s): Elżbieta Rybicka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The article concerns reflection on the landscape at the beginning of the 20th century in Polish geog-raphy and literature. It focuses on mechanisms, tools and goals of discursive production of the national land-scape. The subject of the analysis is Jerzy Smoleński’s Landscape of Poland and the anthology Polish land in the poetry edited by Jan Lorentowicz. The analyzed phenomena point to specific rules of landscape view in literature, using polonization, selection, idealization and archaization. They also prove that the landscape in both geographical and literary discourses played an important role in shaping national identity.

Komercjalizacja współpracy międzygminnej? Rola spółek międzygminnych w dostarczaniu usług publicznych na tle innych form współpracy samorządowej

Author(s): Marta Lackowska,Paweł Swianiewicz,Aleksandra Picej / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

The article focuses on differences between various legal forms of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) inPoland. In particular, it looks at inter-municipal companies, as a highly institutionalised form often neglected in thestudies on IMC. Analysing their structure, we try to define the main composition-types of those units. We also analysisthe role of inter-municipal companies in the service provision, comparing it to the role played by other forms ofIMC. Our hypothesis behind these studies is that intermunicipal companies operate in different fields and with differentaims than inter-municipal unions – they are focused on current service provision (especially those of a privategood character) rather than on investments and absorption of the external funding – and that the companies are oftenderivatives of other forms of IMC.

Konteksty (nie)widzialności w polskich migracjach do Niemiec. Przykład Berlina

Author(s): Dominika Studzińska,Magdalena Szmytkowska / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 80/2020

Along with time-related changes in the migration of Poles to Germany, the invisibility that has been ascribed to them has also evolved: from intentional hiding to deliberate merging into local social and spatial structures. The city of Berlin, perceived as an open, modern and multicultural metropolis, is an exceptional laboratory of transformations and diversity of social behaviours shown by Polish migrants. It attracts new citizens who not only want to make a living here, but also – and more frequently – to achieve self-fulfilment. While the invisibility of the economic migrants is mainly a result of their alienation in a new country, the representatives of lifestyle migration deliberately merge into the culturally diverse society of Berlin and they try to identify with other social groups. The aim of this article is to identify the existence and forms of every-day functioning of Polish migrants in Berlin in the context of invisibility.

Krajobraz turystyczny na Saint Vincent i Grenadynach jako element krajobrazu kulturowego

Author(s): Katarzyna Podhorodecka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

The tourism in the Caribbean Region in 2005–2016 was growing rapidly, 34% growth in foreign tourists’arrivals was recorded. However Saint Vincent and the Grenadines recorded decrease in foreign tourists’ arrivals by11,3% in the same period. Those islands are responsible for 1–2% of tourist movement to small islands of this region.The aim of the article was to indicate the particular elements of tourism infrastructure in the landscape as a part ofcultural landscape on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The detailed aim was to answer to the question whether thetourism industry uses the cultural potential of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

La politique environnementale au Sénégal : l’assainissement dans la ville de Diamniadio

Author(s): Modou Ndiaye / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2020

Urban development is accompanied by significant production of wastewater and waste. The collection and treatment of this waste and spent waste results in the presence of numerous unauthorized dumps, stagnation of waste water. Most of the waste comes from households, industrial establishments and hospitals. The removal and disposal of waste is a crucial environmental problem in Senegalese cities. These problems stem from a series of causes which revolve around irregular collection, incomplete territorial coverage, and insufficient collection equipment, the absence of an effective treatment system and non-implication of the populations. To this end, Senegal’s environmental policy, in particular the management of wastewater and waste is one of the fundamental challenges of cities.

Land Melioration in Belarusian Polesia as a Modernization Factor in the Soviet Periphery

Author(s): Artem Kouida / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

For centuries, Southern Belarus was notorious in neighboring regions for its impassable marshland landscapes. In the course of historical and political reforms and reorganization, this outlying borderland experienced lively changes of rulership and government. All attempts made by the Russians, Germans and Poles to make the area easier to access and traverse for the purposes of stimulating the economy, exploiting natural resources or developing tourism ended in only modest success. After the October Revolution, the draining of the swamps was proclaimed by the new Soviet powers to be a top agricultural priority. However, the project could only be partially realized in the early decades of the Soviet Union due to industrialization, which significantly depleted state resources. With Leonid Brezhnev’s assumption of power in 1964, the increase of land yield in the race against the USA was seen as an indicator of the potency of Soviet state power. For this purpose, vast state resources were made available. A side effect of swampland drainage and the improvement of soil conditions was an initiative to modernize the rural region, so, with the establishment of large state-owned agricultural enterprises came the expansion and development of infrastructure. Roads were laid across the countryside and modem houses, schools and kindergartens were built. Thus, after 45 years of Soviet power, the rural population was also able to enjoy the benefits of modem achievements. Gradually, Polesia started making the headlines. Films were made and countless newspaper articles written. With the expansion of the airport near the transforming city of Pinsk, a direct air connection could be established between the region and the Belarusian capital of Minsk. This made it possible to hold both national and international conferences in Polesia.

Landscape Interventions? The Draining of Wetlands and Other Modernization Initiatives in West Polesia from 1921 to 1939

Author(s): Diana Siebert / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Polesia was still Europe’s largest swampland area in the first half of the twentieth century. The western part formed the voivodeship of Polesia, which belonged to Poland and was inhabited mainly by Eastern Slavs (in rural areas) and Jews (in the cities and shtetls). Considered a terra non grata until the nineteenth century, political and state actors and others closely associated with the government now began to conceive, prepare and carry out modernization measures in order to develop the region’s agricultural constitution, structure and production. Some of their arguments were explicitly “apolitical.” Until 1939, land consolidation measures and, in part, the dissolution of easements were successfully carried out. On the other hand, the planned settlement of ex-military personnel, the partial expropriation and parcelling out of land and the melioration of swamps were only achieved on a relatively small scale. Over one million hectares of wetlands were to be meliorated in a single large-scale project. However, this only succeeded to a limited extent. Such a mammoth interventionist undertaking first faced technical and organizational difficulties; secondly, there was a lack of funds; thirdly, there were a number of interventionist projects in Central Poland and on the Baltic Sea that were considered more important; and fourthly, the local farmer-fishermen were not enthused by the prospect of melioration, as the areas of “improved” land were to benefit non-locals and the transition to grain production would reduce wildlife and fishing areas.

Les ressources pour la promotion du développement urbain durable : cas de la ville nouvelle de Diamniadio

Author(s): Modou Ndiaye / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2020

The purpose of this article is to analyze the promotion of sustainable urban development. The major question is to understand how the new city project adapts to the new production model of the city based on a normative approach including relevant practices. Urban planning consists of a project approach which tends towards sustainable production in the city. The latter must in no way ignore resources for the promotion of sustainable urban development, the transposition of which into space constitutes a challenge to be met. To be viable, the Diamniadio sustainable city project must essentially take care of the landscape and environmental, social and land dimensions linked to Senegalese history and culture.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Publication Year: 2014

Includes full papers presented in the esearch conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, editions 1-8. Individual abstracts available for each article.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Publication Year: 2015

Includes full papers presented in the esearch conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, 9th edition. Individual abstracts available for each article.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Publication Year: 2015

Includes full papers presented in the esearch conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, 10th edition. Individual abstracts available for each article.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Publication Year: 2016

Includes full papers presented in the esearch conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, 11th edition. Individual abstracts available for each article.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Publication Year: 2018

Includes full papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development.

Maritime spatial rent for modelling maritime spatial development

Author(s): Jacek Zaucha,Magdalena Matczak,Joanna Witkowska,Adam Szczęch,Adam Mytlewski,Joanna Pardus / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 79/2020

The paper focuses on problems related to modelling the development of maritime economic space. This entirely new issue has emerged from the recent changes in the intensity of use of marine areas. First, the economic significance of maritime space is discussed, followed by a simple model based on maritime spatial rent which aims at explaining the patterns of its development. This model encapsulates the interplay between both market and public choice factors that affect the development of maritime space. The paper also includes a discussion of attempts to obtain a monetary value of maritime spatial rent for key offshore maritime sectors in Poland. The paper concludes with suggestions on further developments in this field.

Marzenia o zanikaniu: nomadyczne podmioty włoskiego pogranicza

Author(s): Natalia Chwaja / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The aim of the article is to analyse the figure of a „nomadic subject” in the works of FulvioTomizza and Mauro Covacich, Italian writers coming from the region of north-eastern frontier (Trieste, IstrianPeninsula). The choice of building such a subject, visible in several novels of those two authors can beinterpreted as a symptom of reaction to the conflictual reality of the described area as well as an attemptof facing the identitary dilemmas generated by the frontier. As a result, Tomizza creates an oneiric taleof fading away that brings liberation, while Covacich (in his family saga La città interiore) shows some therapeuticeffects of a „nomadic research”, thanks to which one regains the bond with the territory.

Metoda oceny wartości komunikacyjnej miasta jako instrument do planowania zrównoważonego systemu transportowego

Author(s): Daria Adamska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

In this article, the author introduces the main features of properly designed transportation system. There is also an explanation of how important it is for sustainable development to have a good mobility capabilities in the city. Moreover, one of the main components of the whole system is public transport. The author also explains the method of public transport valuation which enables to locate problematic areas, where the distance to the nearest stop is too big. Furthermore, the method of public transport valuation allows to situate new stops in optimal locations. Thanks to this method the verification of potential new investments concerning public transport can be also conducted.